Appeal No. 96-4003
Application 08/288,131
terminal receiving one of the enable signals to enable only one of the bias circuits at any
time for transferring charge between the output terminal and a first reference supply, thereby generating
the bias at the output terminal; and
a common bias terminal connected to the output terminal of each of the bias circuits.
The Examiner relies on the following reference:
Tobita 5,065,091 Nov. 12, 1991
Claims 1-6, 11-16, 21, and 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Tobita. Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the Examiner, reference is made to
the Briefs and Answers for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection advanced by the
Examiner, the arguments in support of the rejection and the evidence of anticipation relied upon by the
Examiner as support for the prior art rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
consideration, in reaching our decision, Appellants’ arguments set forth in the Briefs along with the
Examiner’s rationale in support of the rejection and arguments in rebuttal set forth in the Examiner’s
Answers.
We note that in response to the Examiner’s new ground of rejection in the Answer, Appellants
separately argue the patentability of independent claims 1 and 11 in the Reply Brief. Since no separate
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